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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...agree with this opinion in the main and yet feel that it is slightly wrong in its implications, dangerously wrong in the time and place of its statement. One may feel at first that the opinion finds some support in the very number of the magazine in which it appears. In both the prose and the verse of this number there is excellent artifice, ingenious technical device, promising experimentation. But after all, this is as it should be. The presence of these things even in overflowing measure does not argue a necessary absence of sincerity. For, besides the two sorts...
...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
...Unfinished Symphony' by Schubert is the main number of a carefully selected and well-balanced program, worthy of the efforts of any professional orchestra. The "Symphonic Poem" by Rabaud and the "Overture" by Tinel are numbers very rarely given in this country...
...hearing before the Massachusetts Supreme Court in regard to the disposition of the $22,000,000 Gordon McKay Fund, President Lowell testified on Wednesday that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, insofar as it offers instruction in the four main engineering subjects, is a department of the University. President Lowell explained that while Technology is not a part of the University to the extent that other departments are it is the Harvard School of Applied Science carried on at Tech...
...picture subjects are comprehensive and the prints sharp. Lack of action, their main fault, is due, of course, to corresponding lethargy among undergraduates at this of year. When spring athletics invade Soldiers Field again we shall doubtless get our due share of action pictures. For even a blindman gets more thrills from a picture of a man sliding into third than one of Harvard losing a chess meet...